The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-26
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that is nursing and raising four young rabbits
with her kittens.
THE Buffalo friends of Mr.. O'Brien are get
ting even with Toronto people by snubbing all
who visit the former place
THE vigorous Saxon name, Hell's Bend, APP
piled to a spot in Illinois, has been changed to
the seductive title Pleasant Grove.
In is a curious scientific fact that all the ele-
ments of the poison found in a rattlesnake are
inherent in the common Irish potato.
In Germany householders are allowed to treat
trespassing cats and dogs as beasts of prey;
that is, they can kill them in any way they
choose
AN APPLICANT for a teachers certificate in a
California town on being requested to name
four animals of the torrid zone wrote Two
lions and two elephants.
In Paris small pots of clotted cream, slightly
sour, are sold for few pence This cream is
called ST. Gervais; it is excellent when eaten
alone, but still better with fresh fruit or with
tarts
THE other day an old woman got off the train
at ST. Ignace, Mich, with q cross-cut saw and
musket, mop and broom, pail of soft soap and
coop of chickens, an old-faShioned clock, several
packages and some buckets.
A TENNESSEE NEWSPAPER contains the follow
ing: I'VE are rejoced to know that J. G. Rock
het, that prince of gentlemen and car of cul-
ture, has secured the contract for building the
plank sidewalk in front of the Gibbons block.
He is a gentleman of the old school and knows
good piece of plank when he sees it.
DANNIE SULLIVAN, of Boston, jumped on a low
shed to get ball the other evening and stumbled
over two electric light wires thus completing
circuit and sending tremendous current of
electricity through his little body. When found
he was dead, his clothing was burning, and the
flesh in contact with the wires was burned to
crisp.
AMONG the callers at the Presidents last re-
ception was young mother, who carried a
child in her arms. The President dropped the
grown-up smile with which he had been greet
ing his callers and said, Hello, little one, how
dye do?'' The child promptly stretched forth
its arms and leaned forward and planted kiss
upon the Presidential cheek.
THE Chinese Foreign Board has issued cir
cular to the effect that the government is con-
structing a railway from Tientsin to the Sha
hwo gate at Pekn, to be finished within two
years, and that the owners of any graves i'll the
way OF the new line must find new site and
remove the collins. This shows that the flung
shut superstition is dying out.
THAT some rich families are left among the
old French nobility is illustrated by the case of
the late Duke of Earochefoucauld-D ondeauville,
who, during his lifetime, gave away more than
100000 francs for charitable objects, and yet
le1t 10 MS helr LarOchetouCauld Blsaccla, over
0,0O0,0O0 The latter already had an income of
S240,000 a year before he received this sum.
Mr. AND Mrs. WALTER WINERY, of Bitter
Root valley, Montana, discovered in pine tree
large mountain lion. Mrs Winery agreed to
stand guard while her husband went for a gun.
She filled her apron with rocks, and every time
the lion started to come down she would hurl
bowlder at him, keeping him in place until her
husband returned with the gun and shot the lion
dead.
MANat Geneseo, H., took sick the other
night and sent his nephew out for some pills.
The young man, finding the drug stores all
closed and one solitary grocery open, entered
and procured handful of small white beans.
When he got home he filed a pill box in his
room roo with beans and took them to his uncle.
The beans were taken and proved quite effica-
cious, as the man recovered the following day.
Rev. DR.. TILLETT of Vanderbilt, University,
recently visited Mormon Sunday school while
in Salt Lake City. AS he entered the infant
class department temporary teacher was say
ing We'll, boys, where is your teacher?''
They all replied promptly in concert: In the
penitentiary." The teacher then asked, rs he
there for doing right or for doing wrongy" All
replied For doing right" DR.. Tillett learned
afterward that the man in question was serving
term for bigamy.
MAN dug a we'll 25 feet from a eucalyptus
tree, lined it with cement, and placed over it a
substantial cover. The water was carried to the
house from the well in a wooden pipe. In that
wooden pipe was e knothole. In time the well
began to give out. The water, too, was acqur-
ing strange taste. Explorations developed the
fact that the well had been filled up with masses
of eucalyptus roots. The tree had run a root
straight for the knot hole, 25 feet off and by
that method gained the well itself.
SOME YEARS AGO a wealthy citizen of Bahren-
field, in the Duchy of Holstein, promised
iad of
give house to the mans twelfth child, if he
should have that many. In due time No. ~
arrived, and the proud father asked the wealthy
citizen to make good his promise. This he re-
fused to do saying that the whole thing was
joke. The father then went to law about it,
and, although the promise was only verbal
one, the court not only decided in favor of No
II, but authorized the plaintiff to choose which
ever one OF the defendants houses he liked best.
Nor LONG AGO a wag changed the notice
wait until the train stops" in a car of the
London underground railway, to ''Wait until
the rain stops" The next day, which happened
to be rainy day, French gentleman got into
the car and read the notice, and though sur
prised at it, determined Loyalty to obey the rules
of the road. At every station he asked porter
If it was still raining, and on receiving an
affirmative reply went back to his seat And IN
was not until after he had ridden far beyond his
destination that he discovered his mistake He
now thinks as little of English wit as he does of
the English climate.
Mr. GLADSTONE relates that when he was a
young and ardent Tory at Oxford, he ventured
to expostulate with Liberal workman who
was taking part in the reform agitation Mr..
Gladstone urged him to beware of these revolu-
tionary notions, and besought, him to take
warning by the fate of France. The honest
workman listened respectfully for time, and
then broke out with reply which Mr. Glad
stone to this day admits was conclusive
D your foreign nations!" said he What
has that got TO do with old EnglandY" Mr.
Gladstone thinks Englishmen to-day are too ant
to assume just that attitude towards foreign
opinion on home rule.
AN interesting discovery was made at Win
chester Cathedral during the construction of
the tomb TO hold the remains of Bishop Courte-
nay. workman, in making an opening in the
choir wall, exposed De Blois' leaden Golfer, in
which that Bishop had enshrned the bones of
his uncle Richard, the second son of the CON
queror, who was killed by a stag in the New
forest. Richards bones were thus preserved bv
King Stephens brother, and the Golfer after
some seven centuries, remains perfect The in
scliption denotes that the Golfer contains the
bones of Richard, but the words "Beorm Dux''
leads antiQuarians to believe that the Golfer
also holds the bones Of Earl Beorm, Nephew of
Canute. An examination by the order of the
Dean, will be made.
A HARRISBURG PA.) SPECIAL says: "a heavy